The original readme and documentation files are all in Japanese. If you can read Japanese, head to:
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/3114/

Otherwise, here's my help file...

Ok guys, this is a BUNCH of tools. None of them are official Sony tools and some have been known to lock up systems requiring a restart, so run the tools by themselves.

I do not have familiarity with these programs as all the help files and text files were in Japanese.

==[PSXVideo 1.20]==
This baby is BRAND new. I have not played with it yet
but all previous versions allow you to convert *some*
of the videos off of PSX games. Why do you need all these Cdxa tools? Some CD-ROM drives cannot read the mode 2 data directly. XA is a very wierd interleaved format. You cannot just drag XA files off the CD, you must use the CDxa tools to pull the files. Remember to turn on FF7 mode for reading FF7 videos. It should 
default to compression of "Microsoft Video 1" and
300k/sec compression. The serial number for PSXVideo is 
QOEBTDUOFV.

Cddll.dll
Cddll16.dll
Psxvideo.cnt
Psxvideo.exe
Cdfind.exe
Cdxa.exe
Cdxafind.exe
Cdxautil.exe

==[XAPlay 0.5]==
This is a cool program for playing music and voiceover 
tracks directly off the CD, however it only plays a 
few games. I've only gotten it to work with Silent 
Hill, Gran Turismo, and Castlevania. Also, the music 
skips towards the end of each track. xa2wav.exe 
supposedly converts the audio to WAV format with no 
loss.

XAPlay05.exe
xa2wav.exe
xaex.exe

==[XAPlay 0.8]==
This is supposed to be the updated version of 
XAPlay 0.5 but they've removed the track-skip and
playback controls (the play bar). Also, this is more
prone to crash than XAPlay 0.5.

XAPlay.exe

==[STRplay 0.9]==

A program that can play videos directly off a PSX 
game without first being converted with PSXVideo.

Strplay.exe

==[PSXPlay 1.17]==

Another program that can play videos directly off a 
PSX game without first being converted with PSXVideo.

e-mail: feldon@phoenix.net

http://www.phoenix.net/~feldon/psxvideo.html
